Story+2009-05-18+Washington,+DC

“Washington! (crowd cheers) are you ready to be delivered? (crowd cheers)…”
 * 18.05.09 Washington, DC, intro to “Badlands”**

“Good evening, Washington (crowd cheers) we’re so glad to be here in our nation’s capital tonight (crowd cheers) and we’re here tonight to fulfil our solemn vow to rock the house! (crowd cheers) but we’re not here tonight just to rock the house, we’re here tonight because we’re gonna build a house (crowd cheers) that’s right, right here in this room tonight we’re gonna build a house (crowd cheers) we’re gonna take the fear that’s out there and we’re gonna build a house of hope (crowd cheers) we’re gonna take the despair that’s out there and we’re gonna build a house of love (crowd cheers) we’re gonna take the doubt and we’re gonna build us a house of faith (crowd cheers) and we’re gonna take the sadness and we’re gonna build ourselves a house of joy and happiness (crowd cheers) and we’re gonna take that cooling off and we’re gonna build ourselves a house of sexual healing! (crowd cheers) that’s right…and we’re gonna use the bad wood and we’re gonna use the good wood…and we’re gonna use the bad news that’s out there and we’re gonna use the good news that’s here tonight…and we got all the tools we need right here on this stage and in these seats (crowd cheers) we got everything we need…but we’re here tonight because we can’t do it by ourselves…we’re here tonight and night after night after night the E Street Band comes out to bring the down power but we can’t do it by ourselves (crowd cheers) if we’re gonna build a house out of music and spirit and noise…the E Street Band is here tonight and we’re gonna bring down the power of the music but, Washington, we need you to bring the noise (crowd cheers) now sing it like you mean it …”
 * 18.05.09 Washington, DC, middle of “Working on a Dream”**

“That’s a good sign…(?) whose sign is that? whose sign is that? whose sign is this?...(?) are you ready, are you ready?...” [According to Backstreets, “played for a nine-year-old girl who made it to the front of the stage to sit with Bruce during part of the song.”]
 * 18.05.09 Washington, DC, intro to “Out in the Street”**

“Give me the drumbeat, Max, key of E…”
 * 18.05.09 Washington, DC, intro to “Little Latin Lupe Lu”**

“Oh yeah…Patricia! (chuckles) bring your sassy self out here (chuckles) we got Patti with us tonight, it’s nice (crowd cheers) oh yeah…(chuckles) alright…gonna dedicate this, gonna dedicate this to her because it’s great to have her with us tonight…’cause you’re nice, that’s just ‘cause you’re nice, that’s nice…”
 * 18.05.09 Washington, DC, intro to “Kingdom of Days”**

“Thank you (crowd cheers) thank you for coming out to the show tonight (crowd cheers) we wanna thank and salute our, our great friends from the Walter Reed Hospital and Bethesda Naval Hospital, let’s hear it for our veterans that are with us tonight (crowd cheers) yeah, right there (crowd cheers) come on, give it up, give it up, give it up, give it up! (crowd cheers) we thank you, oh…we also have some friends from the Washington DC Central Kitchen, for twenty years the DC Central Kitchen has been using the food that we waste to feed the homeless and the hungry, each day they collect and serve more than a ton of surplus from area restaurants and they get it to the Washington DC’s struggling citizens, all you have to do is pick up the newspapers to see the millions of jobs that have been lost, hundreds of thousands just over the past few months, you realise there are many, many, many, many people out there that are truly struggling…grassroots organizations like the Washington DC Central Kitchen are very often their last safety net between having their kids go to bed with some nutritious food or hungry, please support your neighbours and support the Washington DC Central Kitchen (crowd cheers) this is, uh…this is a song written by Stephen Foster in 1855…it’s called “Hard times come again no more”…”
 * 18.05.09 Washington, DC, intro to “Hard Times”**

“We wanna thank you all for coming out to the show tonight (crowd cheers) thank you for supporting our band over all these years… (…) The unbelievable Little Steven (crowd cheers) the gorgeously luscious and talented, Miss Patti Scialfa (crowd cheers) from the Sessions Band, Curtis King (crowd cheers) Sister Soozie Tyrell (crowd cheers) the unstoppable Mighty Max Weinberg (crowd cheers) the thunder from down under, Garry W. Tallent (crowd cheers) with an I.Q of three hundred thousand, Professor Roy Bittan (crowd cheers) Charlie Giordano from the Sessions Band (crowd cheers) Cindy Mizelle on the vocals (crowd cheers) one of the greatest guitarists in the world, Nils Lofgren (crowd cheers) and the biggest man you’ve ever seen: Clarence “Big Man” Clemons (crowd cheers) Washington! (crowd cheers) Washington! (crowd cheers) Washington! (crowd cheers) Washington! (crowd cheers) Washington! (crowd cheers) Washington! (crowd cheers) you’ve just seen the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, hard-rocking, earth-shaking, love-making, Viagra-taking, history-making, legendary (crowd: “E Street Band”)(crowd cheers)...”
 * 18.05.09 Washington, DC, intro to “American Land”**

“[There is a request sign that says “Obama called, he wants Rosie”] …[Roy plays a little bit of “Hail to the Chief”]…By executive request (crowd cheers)…let me hear it, Roy [Roy again plays a short bit of “Hail to the Chief”]…”
 * 18.05.09 Washington, DC, intro to “Rosalita”**

//Compiled by Johanna Pirttijärvi//